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From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com>
Cc: 27511@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:32:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmp7m0sv.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F318FAC-AA27-4F51-BB51-D41AF464D5AB@fastmail.com> (James Nguyen's message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:35:58 -0700")

tags 27511 notabug
close 27511
quit

James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com> writes:

> That snip you sent doesn’t work the way I want. It just opens the Gui
> Emacs up without opening a new scratch buffer.

Oh you want a *new* scratch buffer?  As in, you end up with multiple
scratch buffers if you run emacsclient several times?

> At this point, my takeaway is that we think this is 1. not a bug and
> 2. unlikely to have the default change (emacsclient behaving similarly
> in spirit to emacs)
>
> I will just have to write a bash function that wraps emacsclient and
> check for the file arg (or lackof) myself.

Yeah, changing the defaults is tricky because you have to get a lot of
people to agree on what the new default should be.  Although it seems to
me that the current default of just printing an error message is not
especially useful for anyone...







  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-29 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-28  2:03 bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument James Nguyen
2017-06-28 14:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 15:00   ` James Nguyen
2017-06-28 17:03     ` Ken Brown
2017-06-28 17:22       ` James Nguyen
2017-06-28 17:35         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 23:49           ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29  1:13             ` npostavs
2017-06-29  3:35               ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 12:32                 ` npostavs [this message]
2017-06-29 14:11                   ` Ken Brown
2017-06-29 16:48                     ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 18:11                       ` Ken Brown
2017-06-30  1:06                         ` James Nguyen

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